Wordpress plugin install Could not create directory

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I m using WordPress on centos 6   I try to install a plugin  But I got this error      Installing Plugin  bbPress 2 5 9   Downloading install package from https   downloads wordpress org plugin bbpress 2 5 9 zip         Unpacking the package         Could not create directory    How can I resolve this   P S  I run this command   sudo -u root touch  var www html wordpress wp-content plugins test txt   and it works  But I still get that error

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The user that is running your web server does not have permissions to write to the directory that Wordpress is intending to create the plugin directory in. You should chown the directory in question to the user that is running Wordpress. It is most likely not root.

In short, this is a permissions issue. Your touch command is working because you're using it as root, and root has global permissions to write wherever it wants.

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You only need to change the access permissions for your WordPress Directory   chown -R www-data www-data your-wordpress-directory

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wordpressProject is the project name      var www html wordpressProject sudo chmod -R 777 wp-content   Thanks  It will work

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To solve permission issue on plugins and themes on localhost or production quickly  you just run this  sudo chmod 757 wp-content themes sudo chmod 757 wp-content plugins   if take care permission on production  you can run  sudo chown -R www-data www-data wp-content themes sudo chown -R www-data www-data wp-content plugins

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You need to change the permission of the directory  At first change the user HTML folder  replace yourcomputerusername  sudo chown yourcomputerusername yourcomputerusername  var www html  Next change the permission for the user cd  var www html sudo chmod -R goa rwx wordpress or sudo chmod -R 777 wordpress wp-content

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If anyone using shared hosting and get same problem it may be disk space issue  In that case contact with your hosting support and ask them to increase disk space of your acocunt

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If you have installed wordpress using apt  the config files are split in multiple directories  In that case you need to run   sudo chown -R -h www-data www-data  var lib wordpress wp-content  sudo chown -R -h www-data www-data  usr share wordpress wp-content    The -h switch changes the permissions for symlinks as well  otherwise they are not removable by user www-data

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Absolutely it must be work    Use this  chown -Rf www-data www-data  var www html

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A quick solution would be to change the permissions of the following     var www html wordpress wp-content  var www html wordpress wp-content plugins   Change it to 775   After installation  don t forget to change it back to the default permissions    D

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You can fix this by using the following commands  You should first be in the root folder of Wordpress   sudo chown -R www-data www-data wp-content plugins  sudo chmod 775 wp-content  sudo chown -R www-data www-data wp-content

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CentOS7 or Ubuntu 16    1   WordPress uses ftp to install themes and plugins  So the ftpd should have been configured to create-directory  vim  etc pure-ftpd confg   and if it is no then should be yes     Are anonymous users allowed to create new directories  AnonymousCanCreateDirs       yes   lastly  sudo systemctl restart pure-ftpd      2   Maybe there is an ownership issue with the parent directories  Find the Web Server user name and group name if it is Apache Web Server  apachectl -S   it will print          User  name  apache  id 997 Group  name  apache  id 1000   on Ubuntu it is     User  name  www-data  id 33 not used   Group  name  www-data  id 33 not used   then   sudo chown -R apache apache directory-name      3   Sometimes it is because of directories permissions  So try  sudo chmod -R 755 directory-name   in some cases 755 does not work   It should  amp  I do not no why  so try  sudo chmod -R 777 directory-name      4   Maybe it is because of php safe mode  So turn it off in the root of your domain  vim php ini   then add   safe mode   Off      NOTE  For not entering FTP username and password each time installing a theme we can configure WordPress to use it directly by adding  define  FS METHOD   direct      to the wp-config php file

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I had to give ownership of  plugins and  upgrade to the server  nothing else     cd  var www wordpress wp-content   sudo chown www-data www-data  plugings   sudo chown www-data www-data  upgrade   Running Apache server on Ubuntu 18 04  Maybe more dirs will need to be changed later  Anyways  I plan to restore permissions once I finish editing  as suggested in this anwser

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To solve permission issue on ubuntu server  you just run this  sudo chmod 777 -R  wordpress wp-content file location         for example   sudo chmod 777 -R  usr share wordpress wp-content

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For me the problem was FTP server that WP is using to upload update  It had writting disabled in configuration  so just enabling it fixed the problem   Shame on WordPress for providing such misleading error message

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I was on XAMPP for linux localhost and this worked for me   sudo chown -R my-linux-username wp-content

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What I end up doing is every time I create a WordPress project  in  www html  I run below command  sudo chown www-data www-data  wordpress folder name -R   hope this will help someone

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